- Title
- The quest for pi
- Creator
- Bailey, D. H.; Borwein, J. M.; Borwein, P. B.; Plouffe, S.
- Relation
- The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 50-56
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03024340
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1997
- Description
- This article gives a brief history of the analysis and computation of the mathematical constant π = 3.14159 ..., including a number of formulas that have been used to compute π through the ages. Some exciting recent developments are then discussed in some detail, including the recent computation of π to over six billion decimal digits using high-order convergent algorithms, and a newly discovered scheme that permits arbitrary individual hexadecimal digits of π to be computed.
- Subject
- Pi; history; analysis; computation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1046805
- Identifier
- uon:14691
- Identifier
- ISSN:0343-6993
- Language
- eng
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